{"id":497448,"date":"2026-05-19T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497448"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:48:06","slug":"mike-james-to-barcelona-even-without-xavi-pascual-barca-close-fourth-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-to-barcelona-even-without-xavi-pascual-barca-close-fourth-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James to Barcelona even without Xavi Pascual: Bar\u00e7a close fourth signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1365\"><strong data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1233\">Mike James<\/strong> will play for <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1261\">Barcelona<\/strong> next season, with the Blaugrana reportedly closing a deal for the EuroLeague\u2019s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1650\">According to <em data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1397\">Mundo Deportivo<\/em>, James has signed the contract despite knowing that <strong data-start=\"1450\" data-end=\"1468\">Xavi Pascual\u2019s<\/strong> continuity was not guaranteed. The Catalan coach is expected to join <strong data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1558\">Dubai Basketball<\/strong>, but the deal for the Monaco guard remains completed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1868\">Barcelona had previously explored Sylvain Francisco and Jean Montero, but market difficulties pushed the club toward James, who already worked with Pascual at Panathinaikos and remains a high-level EuroLeague player.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"2054\">Last season with Monaco, James averaged <strong data-start=\"1910\" data-end=\"1951\">16.4 points, 6.5 assists and 19.1 PIR<\/strong>. After Moses Wright, Josh Nebo and Olivier Nkamhoua, Bar\u00e7a adds another major name to its new project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike James will play for Barcelona next season, with the Blaugrana reportedly closing a deal for the EuroLeague\u2019s all-time leading scorer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Mike-James-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497448"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497448"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497448"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}